A Perfect Day for Bananafish | Historical Context
The Birth of American Postmodernism
Literary movements rarely begin on clear and set dates; the postmodernist movement was no exception. Loosely defined, postmodernism is an artistic movement that experiments with (and often destroys) traditional modes and methods of characterization and narrative. Postmodernists characteristically believe, for example, that what we see and hear is nothing but an artificial structure that does not represent the world accurately. ''A Perfect Day for Bananafish,’’ published in 1948, is an early example of a postmodernist story in which the...
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